Ezekiel 32

Grief over Pharaoh and Egypt

1In the 1twelfth year, in the twelfth month, on the first of the month, the word of the Lord came to me, saying, 2“Son of man, take up a 2song of mourning over Pharaoh king of Egypt, and say to him, ‘You 3compared yourself to a young 4lion of the nations, Yet you are like the 5monster in the seas; And you 6burst forth in your rivers And muddied the waters with your feet And 7fouled their rivers.’”

3This is what the Lord 8God says: “Now I will 9spread My net over you With a contingent of many peoples, And they will lift you up in My net.4I will leave you on the land; I will hurl you on the 10open field. And I will cause all the 11birds of the sky to 12nest on you, And I will satisfy the animals of the whole earth 13with you.5I will lay your flesh 14on the mountains And fill the valleys with your refuse.6I will also make the land drink the discharge of your 15blood As far as the mountains, And the ravines will be full of you.7And when I 16extinguish you, I will 17cover the heavens and darken their 18stars; I will cover the 19sun with a cloud And the moon will not give its light.8All the shining 20lights in the heavens I will darken over you And will set darkness on your land,” Declares the Lord God. 9“I will also 21trouble the hearts of many peoples when I 22bring your destruction among the nations, into lands which you have not known. 10And I will make many peoples 23appalled at you, and their kings will be horribly afraid of you when I brandish My sword before them; and 24they will tremble again and again, every person for his own life, on the day of your fall.”

11For 25the Lord God says 26this: “The sword of the king of Babylon will 27attack you. 12By the swords of the warriors I will make your multitude fall; all of them are 28tyrants of the nations, And they will 29devastate the pride of Egypt, And all its multitude will be destroyed.13I will also eliminate all its cattle from beside many waters; And 30a human foot will not muddy them anymore, And the hoofs of animals will not muddy them.14Then I will make their waters settle, And make their rivers run like oil,” Declares the Lord God.15“When I make the land of Egypt a 31desolation, And the land is destitute of that which filled it, When I strike all those who live in it, Then they shall 32know that I am the Lord. 16This is a 33song of mourning, and they shall sing it. The daughters of the nations shall sing it. Over Egypt and over all her hordes they shall sing it,” declares the Lord God.

17In the 34twelfth year, on the 35fifteenth of the month, the word of the Lord came to me, saying, 18“Son of man, 36lament for the hordes of Egypt and 37bring it down, her and the daughters of the mighty nations, to the 38netherworld, with those who go down to the pit;19‘Whom do you surpass in beauty? Go down and make your bed with the 39uncircumcised.’ 20They shall fall in the midst of those who are killed by the sword. 40She is turned over to the sword; they have 41dragged her and all her hordes away. 21The 42strong among the mighty ones shall speak of him and his helpers from the midst of Sheol: ‘They have gone down, they lie still, the uncircumcised, killed by the sword.’

22“43Assyria is there and all her company; 44her graves are all around 45her. All of them killed, fallen by the sword, 23whose 46graves are set in the remotest parts of the pit, and her company is all around her grave. All of them killed, fallen by the sword, who 47spread terror in the land of the living.

24“48Elam is there and all her hordes around her grave; all of them killed, fallen by the sword, who went down uncircumcised to the 49lower parts of the earth, who inflicted their terror on the 50land of the living, and 51bore their disgrace with those who go down to the pit. 25They have made a 52bed for her among the slain with all her hordes. Her graves are around it, they are all uncircumcised, killed by the sword (although their terror was 53inflicted on the land of the living), and they bore their disgrace with those who go down to the pit; 54they were put in the midst of the slain.

26“55Meshech, 56Tubal, and all their hordes are there; their graves 57surround them. All of them were killed by the sword 58uncircumcised, though they inflicted their terror on the land of the living. 2759Nor do they lie beside the fallen 6061heroes of the uncircumcised, who went down to Sheol with their weapons of war and whose swords were placed under their heads; but the punishment for their 62wrongdoing rested on their bones, though the terror of these 63heroes was once in the land of the living. 28But in the midst of the uncircumcised you will be broken and lie with those killed by the sword.

29“There also is 64Edom, its kings and all its 65princes, who 66despite all their might are laid with those killed by the sword; they will lie with the uncircumcised and with those who go down to the pit.

30“There also are the 67chiefs of the 68north, all of them, and all the 69Sidonians, who in spite of the terror resulting from their might, in shame went down with the slain. So they lay down uncircumcised with those killed by the sword and bore their disgrace with those who go down to the pit.

31“These Pharaoh will see, and he will 70find consolation regarding all his hordes killed by the sword, Pharaoh and all his army,” declares the Lord God. 32“Though I inflicted the terror of him on the land of the living, yet he will be laid to rest among the uncircumcised along with those killed by the sword, Pharaoh and all his hordes,” declares the Lord God.